Poems by Khalil Gibran
The Widow and Her Son XXI
... captured the boy's spirit, his mother placed him in the bed and kissed his eyes with quivering lips ...
Time XXI
... e all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing ...
Two Infants II
... the face of the moon, whose beams penetrated the transom of that poor home and fell upon two corpses ...
Two Wishes XI
... nd returning to the sky, Death looked back and whispered his warning: "Only those return to Eternity ...
Vision X
... words I heard, and I saw them emerging with a stream of ever thinning blood from that wounded heart ...
Work chapter VII
... and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night ...
Yesterday and Today XII
... y and painfully the one who withholds it, and it enlivens the other who turns it upon his fellow man ...
The Hymn Of Man
... Unbelieving. I was upon Sinai when the Lord showed Himself ...
Love Chapter II
... nless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears ...
A Tear And A Smile
... I have heard the sigh of those in yearning and Longing, and it is sweeter than the sweetest melody ...
Let these be your desires
... To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy ...
Your Children
... You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth ...
My Friend
... for thou canst not hear the songs of my darkness nor see my wings beating ...
God
... ds of sweetness, and even as the sea that enfoldeth a brook that runneth down to her, he enfolded me ...
On Giving and Taking
... And one day the mother of Jesus came to him and said: "Friend, my son's ...
